Frommer's Florida [With Giant Full-Color Foldout]

by Bill Goodwin and Victoria Pesce Elliot

Miami and Orlando continue to break records, and the strong performances of the cruise industry and Walt Disney World promise to usher in another banner year. Disney's new Animal Kingdom opened earlier this year and is sure to draw even more visitors. From magic on land to magic on sea - Carnival Cruise Lines has added the 1,100 passenger Tropicale, sailing from Tampa on four and five day cruises to Key West and the Caribbean. Previous Edition ISBN:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028622553
• ISBN13: 9780028622552
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 659 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Tourist or Florida resident: there's something for everyone

This is another great Frommer's guide. We've read the one on Arizona (where we used to live before), as well as the one on the Carolinas and Georgia prior to this one, and all have been equally useful and detailed. If you want highlights, you got them: best beaches, best golf courses, best resorts, etc. If you want detail, you can go into as much of it as you care for. We live in Central Florida, and it's been extremely useful to help us plan one-day outings as well as longer vacations. It will help you learn about the lesser known locations as well as give you details and tips you didn't know about the popular ones. It truly is a helpful guide equally for tourists or Florida residents.

5 billion travel books later....

and I finally find one that's actually fun to read. I just moved down to miami from new york city and thank god for this book because I'm used to having alot going on and this book fills me in on the whole miami scene. And it does so without putting me to sleep...which is nice. Let me save you the money I wasted on all the other books I bought about miami: Just buy this one, it's the only one you'll need.

Frommer's Florida helped me immensely!

I just want to give kudos to this book, because it was really, really wonderful on my most recent trip to Florida. I've used other guides in the past (Lonely Planet, etc.), but they seem to be more suited for very exotic locales instead of Florida. For that, Frommer's is the best. They have incredibly accurate information (prices, hours, directions, etc.) and give honest reviews for hotels, restaurants, and attractions that I really appreciate, like "this is the definition of a tourist trap," etc. I was surprised and pleased with this guide, and I'd recommend it in a heartbeat to anyone else who's going down there.

A Book Not To Be Without

Having Recently purchased Walt Disney World and Orlando For Dummies 2003, I have to compliment the writers all the way because the information given was so acurate that it matched my expectations completely with no stone left uncovered.It's not often that someone can visit a country and just having read a simple book prior to leaving gain so much knowledge that i was able to plan my trip down to the last minute with the vital information that gets put down to "lost time " in most cases.I was amazed at the accuracy of subjects covered with things ranging from Park admission prices to Restaurant's and those that we did visit during our trip matched the descripton to a full.So credit where it's due to Jim & Cynthia Tunstall,for a job well done for the Book that i can no longer be without...A Big Thank-you to you both for something so Informative !!